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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs
June 26, 2024
55th Annual Pi-Ume-Sha Treaty Days Powwow
The Fifty-Fifth Annual Pi-Ume-
Sha Treaty Days Powwow is this
Thursday through Sunday, June 27-
30. The Thursday events include
Memorials, new joiners and rejoin-
ders at 6 p.m. at the Pi-Ume-Sha
grounds.
Grand Entries are Friday
evening at 7 p.m., Saturday at 1
and 7 p.m., and Sunday at 1 p.m.
The Master of Ceremonies is
Carlos Calica, and the arena di-
rector is Captain Moody.
Specials this Pi-Ume-Sha are the
Isaac Mitchell Round Bustle; the
Erin Treeman-Smith Outgoing
All-Around (teens 13-17; the
Three Man Hand Drum, Shell
Dress, Team Dance and Owl
Dance.
The Pi-Ume-Sha Health Fair
is this Wednesday until 1 p.m. at
the Community Wellness Center
front lawn lawn.
There will health screenings,
and community resource contact
infor mation, and many give-
aways.
The Traditional Dress Parade
is on Saturday starting at the
former elementary school area.
There will be a Stick Game tour-
nament over the weekend, and
adult and youth rodeos. For Stick
Game information call Vanessa
Knight-Crance at 541-460-0105.
The Pi-Ume-Sha Treaty Days Ro-
deo, adult, is on Saturday, June 29
starting at 1 p.m. at the rodeo
grounds.
The call-in ends this Wednes-
day, June 26. Call 541-777-3951.
Native architects working on OMSI project
Sometime in the near future, First
Foods and First Medicines will line
the shores of the Willamette River
in the OMSI district; Indigenous sto-
ries and design are on full display,
as flags from hundreds of Native
nations fly proud.
This is the vision for the Center
for Tribal Nations, or CTN—a hub
of commerce and trade for the ur-
ban Indigenous community and
Native nations across the Pacific
Northwest.
“Ultimately, you have to have at
your core this deep sense of under-
standing of protection and advance-
ment of tribal sovereignty. I think
that has to be at the forefront when
you’re dealing with tribes,” said James
Alan Parker, of the Chippewa Cree
Tribal Nation and executive direc-
tor of the Northwest Native Cham-
ber, which is helping to led the
project. “I think we also have to have
a deep understanding and a ground-
ing in the place that we’re at.”
The Center for Tribal Nations
will stand on the shores of the
Willamette River in the central
eastside, just across from downtown
Portland. The spot has served as a
confluence site for Native nations
used for commerce, trade and rela-
tionship-building since time imme-
morial.
“Ultimately, it’s that kind of res-
toration for the 21st century of
what that looks like to us today,”
Parker said.
The CTN just announced the
architect team that will lead the
project. After a long and detailed
selection process, three Indigenous
architects came together to form
The Collaborative. They will work
with a Portland architecture firm to
secure permits.
Those involved in the project
imagine a building that highlights
Native designs and is a gathering
place and economic hub for the
Indigenous community. The build-
ing may include : gathering spaces,
a conference center, spaces for
learning and a food hall, among
other aspects.
“I’m excited about the impact the
project will have,” said Sam
Olbekson, of the White Earth Na-
tion of Minnesota Ojibwe, design
project lead for CTN.
“So that we can have an economy
that transcends the U.S. basis of
commerce, that focuses on build-
ing Indigenous economies.”
Though the design itself is still
over a year out and the building
won’t be completed for much
longer, this project is about envision-
ing a space for the future genera-
tions. It’s also a reclamation of space
along the Willamette River, which
has held significant ties for Native
nations since time immemorial.
“We’re returning back to an In-
digenous economy that isn’t new,”
Mr. Olbekson said, pointing to trade
and relationships between Indig-
enous people that have always been
a part of everyday life. “So this, in
some ways, is innovative. And in
many other ways, it’s returning back
to a strength of economic thinking
that is part of inherent sovereignty.”
In Oregon, there are no Native-
led architecture firms. In fact, across
the country there are only a hand-
ful. As such, the CTN team made
it a priority to reach out to all of
them individually with an invitation
Madras COCC campus to
see $18.2 million expansion
The Central Oregon Community
College Madras campus will see a
a major expansion after the COCC
board approved $18.2 million for
the construction.
The expansion plan is based on
a needs assessment in the campus
service area, with a focus on child-
hood education and health care
workforce gaps, along with provid-
ing more child care options in the
region.
The board approved Kirby
Nagelhout Construction Company
to do the work, with a completion
date of next winter.
The plan calls for a 24,000-
square-foot building, designed spe-
cifically for early childhood educa-
tion programs, registered nurse and
other health career pathways, and
a 100-capacity child care center.
The Kirby Nagelhout Construc-
tion Company was contracted to
build the original COCC Madras
campus building in 2011, along with
the Coats Campus Center,
Middleton Science Center and Bar-
ber Library on the Bend campus,
the Technology Education Center
on the Redmond campus, and
other college projects.
The current contract for the
Madras work resulted from a bid-
ding process that began in Novem-
ber of 2022. The full cost of the
project is currently estimated at
$22,253,586, with funding for the
‘Growing Together’ capital cam-
paign coming from a mix of fed-
eral, state and institutional re-
sources, as well as grant support and
private donations.
to apply to the project.
The three architects leading the
way to creating a fully Indigenous-
led building design are: Olbekson as
project lead; Wanda Dalla Costa,
member of the Saddle Lake Cree
Nation in Canada as principal in
charge of the project; and Tammy
Eagle Bull, Oglala Lakota from the
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, as
the project planner.
“Tammy reached out to me
pretty much right away to say ‘Hey,
let’s not do the colonists’ way of
competing against each other,”
Olbekson said. “Let’s look at our
combined strengths and create
something that’s more Indigenous.”
Thus, The Collaborative was
born.
The Pi-Ume-Sha Treaty Days
Kids Rodeo is on Sunday, June
30 at 1 p.m. And the call-in date
ends also ends this Wednesday.
Alfredine Florendo for rodeo in-
formation can be reached at 541-
460-3257.
The Pi-Ume-Sha Softball Slam
is Saturday and Sunday at Juni-
per Hills Park in Madras, men’’s
and women’s open division, three-
game guarantee. You can call
Jayleen Main at 541-777-7172.
The Powwow Chair man is
Gorky Mitchell, 541-325-2968. The
vendor coordinator is Sharon
Katchia, 541-295-6046; and for
other powwow information you can
reach Cyrille Mitchell at 541-460-
6100.
Pi-Ume-Sha is a drug and alco-
hol free event.